Means for guiding cinematograph films



A ril 15, 1924. c 1,490,279

1 s. KUCHARSKI MEANS FOR GUIDING CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS Filed Sept. 1. 1921 ITJVENTE] R BY/AITURN LY m;, WAQW Patented Apr. 15, 1924. i I v UNITED sTATssrATENT OFFICE.

STANISLAUS .xncrmas n, or cnsnto'r'rnnnnne, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

MEANS FOR, GUIDINGCINEMATOGRAPH FILMS.

v Application fileese' ten ter 1, 1921; Serial No. 497,809.

H, lateral extensions A of which are formed Be it known that I, STANismosKUcIrAnas axles and engage in pedestal bearing sup- 40 slu, engineer, a citizen of Gern'iany, resid- .ports B. On the axles A on each side of ing at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Dernthe objective is a toothed wheel B so arburgstrasse +5, Germany, have invented cerranged that the teeth engage with the pertain new and useful Improvements in Means forations of the film. The film is held for Guiding Cinematograph Films (for against these wheels by rollers WW and VW 45 which I have filed applications in Germany, and since the breadth of these wheels is May 18, 1920; Germany, May 18. 1920, and such that they only engage the perforated Great Britain, $ptfmber 30, 1920), of edges of the'film the image portion of the which the following-is a specification. film betweenthefrollers W and WV is per- The inventiongrelates to cinematograph fectly free. Inthe. example shown, the 50 apparatus of the gtype in which the film is optical centre of" the objective corresponds continuously m nia and the movement is with the centre of the wheel, but the oboptically compensated by means of a rockjective maybe displaced slightly from this ing mirror or the like, the friction of the central position without any appreciable film against the gate being eliminated and reduction in the sharpness of the picture consequently the useful life of the film pro on the screen. The wheels R- carry toothed longed by. leading. the edges of the film rims Z which are driven by pinions T which over two toothed wheels, the portion of the are secured to a shaft D. By the rotation film bearing the images lying freely between 0f the axle D the film is set in motion. the'wheels. I claim I According to the invention the objective In a device of the type described, the is placed at or approximately at the centre combination of two toothed wheels, adapted of the wheels, the axis of the objective into engage perforations in the edges of the tersecting the projected portion of the film, film, said wheels being spaced to permit the radius of the wheels conforming apfree passage of light rays between them and proximately to the focal length of the obhaving radii substantially equal to the focal jective and the common axis of the wheels length of the objective of the device, said intersecting the axis of the objective at wheels having" a common axis passing right angles. By this arrangement the through the optical center of the objective. sharpness of definition of the picture is not In testimony whereof I have affixed my affected by the displacement 'of the film. signature in presence of two Witnesses.

An exam )le of a construction according i Y to the inven tion is shown in'the accompany- STANISLAUS KUCHARMXI" ing drawing. L is the source of light, K ,Witnesses: v the condenser, F the film and O the ob- GUSTAV PIETROL, jective. The objective is carried by a ring 1 PAUL MASSOVA.

To all whom it may concern-J. 

